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Haters, haters, haters: they will always keep on hating,
So, give exactlyzero fucks to what they say, and keep creating.
Dream so big and weird, that everyone will think you’re “nuts,”
Then, laugh until it makes you cry, while counting up your bucks.

Enjoy what you have earned… After all, you do deserve it,
But don’t forget the little guy who’s thinking he’s not worth it.
For some reason, he didn’t walk the “recommended” path,
Plus, Life’s a ‘number’s game;’ he just got left out in the math.

A day, not long ago, that lonely lunatic was you!
Remember how it felt thinking there’s nothing you could do?
You’ve finally made it to the promised land, why ever leave?
The goal was never wealth, but getting hopeless to believe.

I am a student of everything. I learn from the world around me. I study the math of the universe, the art of life, and the working of nature. I ponder the reasons behind existence. I stare up at the night sky and am amazed at the vastness of what is. I learn from everyone I meet and anyone who will teach me. I invent, I create, and I build. I am not confined by my career or job or degree. I am more than that. I will not be one thing: I will be everything. I am a POLYMATH.

The car is completely driverless, using a mix of radar and GPS technology. This technology is already developed and is in the beta testing phase.

Embedded Systems

The car has embedded systems (what some now refer to as “The Internet of Things;” They both mean the same thing). It is when technology is seamlessly integrated into everyday objects, so that what you end up with is basically everything being a part of the same massive, connected system. Things like refrigerators, tabletops, or walls are all a part of the system.

Everything becomes a device, integrating technology to enhance whatever the object is, and since it is all connected, the individual components can be monitored and controlled remotely. There is essentially no difference between your TV, your computer, your smart phone, your wearable technology, a wall on your house with a screen set into it, and eventually, even your (driverless) car.

Google (and just about every major tech company) is working on ways to do this and bring prices down. This technology becoming the “mainstream” solution for average consumers will mark a revolutionary shift in the way we experience life.

If you are a Star Trek geek like me, think of on Star Trek: The Next Generation, where people on the ship would just say “computer,” no matter where they were, and could perform any function of the computer — right from that very spot. The computer, built into the ship, demonstrates embedded systems at partial capacity. That’s possible within a decade, if all the major players do their part.

Eventually, everything in society becomes connected. This creates an entirely new Minority Report society (with the good aspects, not the bad).

Radical New Design of Automobiles

Combining driverless technology and the embedded systems, this creates options for automakers that were never conceived of. I’m not saying that this is the way all cars will be like in the future, I am merely suggesting one possibility:

The front seats of the car can rotate to face backwards. Obviously, this option has never been considered before, because now someone needs to be driving the car. However, since that will no longer be needed, it opens up a new option available in future automobiles, actually bringing families closer together.

With the front seats of the car rotated to face backwards, and the driving automatic, a central table or console could be used for various purposes:

For example:

A centrally located console could double as a table where the family eats lunch at, together.

The car drives itself: a legal wine tasting, anyone?

A dual-sided screen mounted there, where the family could watch a movie together.

The dual-sided screen could be synced up for displaying the same image on both sides for a movie or TV show that passengers want to watch together, or each side could be used independently.

The kids in the backseat are playing a video game, while a parent in the front seat uses their side of the screen to look up something on the Internet, or they work on a project that they would today use a laptop PC for (not if they were driving).

FYI: I am NOT an artist and this picture is an extremely rough drawing of the concept car. However, I think it gets the point across about what could be possible in cars soon. With a car like this, it won’t matter if the driver has wearable tech or not, since the car will be doing the driving.

The Future is Coming Soon

These technologies, individually, are in a mere testing and cost reduction phase, so it is not as if anything is that far off from happening. The technology needed for this radical design of a car is available now, it has just never been considered due to the current need for a driver to drive the vehicle. With the driver out of the equation, this concept and a variety of other radical concepts become a realistic possibility.

Technology Removes the Humanity from Society… and Then Brings it Back Better Than Ever

This example proves a major point that I have pushed for a while now that most people have a tough time believing:

For a time, technology will make society less social, individuals glued to their smartphones checking their Social Network updates or playing games. However, once we reach the next phase of technological innovation, we will be able to use technology to not only bring society back together, but enable us to do things together that were never imagined.

Automatic Technology

This is another concept that will evolve as a result of these devices having technology integrated into them. I call it automatic technology: a device’s ability to “know” where you are and what you are doing, and it intuitively and automatically switches “command” over from one system to another.

Imagine:

You wake up, and check the built-in display in the wall for today’s weather.

Your refrigerator let’s you know that the milk you purchased on Tuesday is going to expire soon and automatically sends a reminder to the core system.

You grab your Google Glasses, which automatically power on upon being touched, and shuts down the computer system being used on the wall.

As you are walking to your car, your brother calls you on your Google Glasses, and allows you to speak to him via earpiece.

Once you enter your car, the call automatically shifts to the car’s large screen for a face-to-face chat.

The gasses automatically power down to save battery life.

When you exit the vehicle, power is automatically restored to the glasses.

When you are driving home from work, a reminder pops up on the car’s display, when you pass by the grocery store, that you need to buy more milk.

Technology is a Tool: It Should Work for You, Not the Other Way Around

The examples and possibilities of this are endless. Everything made so that going through every aspect of life is incredibly intuitive, which will make the entire society more productive.

With their creative talents, gifted individuals can make a useful contribution to innovations within organizations. Highly gifted individuals possess many more creative possibilities than the average gifted person.

To make use of their innovative ideas and to implement them, however, an effective interaction between gifted individuals and their work environment is essential.

How do gifted individuals contribute to innovation?

The gifted individual can easily identify the relationships between goals, missions, and assignments.

The gifted individual has the ability to focus intensely on the content.

Arguments based on content are key.

Habits, traditions and social pressure are quickly spotted. If these seem to be in conflict with the content, they are discarded as being irrelevant.

Thinking ‘outside of the box’ is second nature to them.

Switching between one’s own professional area and other disciplines is no problem at all.

The opinion of a formal authority does not weigh any heavier than the opinion of another party.

Information from others is checked against one’s own experience or against other information.

The gifted individual has a high degree of commitment and passion.

Existing protocols, structures and approaches are only followed if they seem to be effective and are well-founded.

A customized solution is sought for each individual situation, often when this has not been requested. ‘Standard problems’ are also approached in this way.

Favorable environmental factors required for making use of these contributions are listed below. The favorable characteristics listed correspond strongly with the ‘task culture’ and ‘person culture,’ while the unfavorable characteristics correspond with the ‘role culture’ or ‘power culture’ from “Harrison’s typologies of organizational culture.”

Favorable and Unfavorable Organizational Characteristics for the Gifted

Favorable organizational characteristics:

Flexibility.

Little hierarchy.

Few procedures (only if they are useful).

The development and needs of employees are of importance.

Room for productive conflicts.

Power and influence can be acquired through expertise, dedication and success (or, at most, through personality, ability and outstanding performances).

Unfavorable organizational characteristics:

Procedures determine the work.

Power and influence are predominantly dependent upon your position.

The development and needs of the employee are of little importance.

Conflicts are often avoided.

How can giftedness be recognized?

If an employee arrives at your consulting room, how do you recognize the above-mentioned characteristics of giftedness?

Wide interest in all kinds of fields (curious and passionate).

Sensitive to, such as, noise at work (highly sensitive).

Can speak passionately about a subject that interests him or her, starts speaking more quickly, the eyes light up, makes agitated gestures (passionate).

Quick analyses of the work situation: ‘that’s how it works’ (highly intelligent).

Focussed primarily on the content of the work (highly intelligent).

Wants to work in his/her own way (autonomous).

Wants to see a lot of variety in the work (creation-directed).

Produces unorthodox solutions that are not generally accepted (sparkling original).

Focus points for the problem analysis

Gifted individuals suffer relatively often from stress and burnout. Factors that can be of influence here are the nature of the work (sufficient challenge), the degree of autonomy and the defining of borders. Gifted employees are especially passionate and have the tendency to insufficiently specify their own limits.

Bullying, or other forms of aggression: because a gifted individual does not fit the requirements of the ‘average’ employee. As a result, fear/anxiety disorders may arise.

Depressive feelings often start at an early age. Gifted individuals can therefore more easily feel lonely and isolated.

Fear of failure as a result of setting the bar high and the tendency to perfectionism.

The gifted individual can come across as having ADHD. The combination of giftedness and ADHD is not uncommon.

Gifted individuals have a high sensitivity for odors and sounds.

They more quickly experience certain circumstances as being a hindrance.

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In in instant, both people would immediately not just know every thought and action each other has ever had. They would actually have experienced it (as far as they know).

Now, imagine that same technology scaled large enough to “sync” every single person on the planet, for 60 seconds.

Instant Global Awakening.

For geeks, think of:

Telepathy (aka Professor X).

Vulcan Mind Meld.

It’s the same thing, but instead of cool but impossible magic powers (Trust me that would be “Plan A,” but my extensive research of trying to grab the remote control using “The Force,” isn’t looking very promising at the moment.

However, we can invent… and as impossible as this idea sounds, it could be done, with immense R&D, a bottomless pit of money, and a lifetime.

Most (or all) of the people starting the project would never live to see the result, but it would give your life purpose. We’d be building heaven, but never get to go…

What about our kids?

…and theirs?

Randomly thought of that… the same effect is happening with the gradual extinction of privacy, and our ability to instantly communicate.

It’d still be faster, but then you run into:

Is it wrong to force everyone to do something once, if it means putting an end to so much pain? Who gets to make that decision?